What are you currently collecting?
 

After lurking for a few years I would like to ask what folks on here collect besides bullion.

I will use myself as an example. I am currently working on completing a Dansco 7070 Album which is a Type coin album of all major US coins circulated since 1800. Right now I am looking for a reasonable Coronet half-cent 1849-57.

I'd like to know what some of you are into, besides amassing mountains of 90% (not that there is anything wrong with that mind you).:emotions16:

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In order of Favorites
Silver Art Bars and Bullion
Then if you click on the Banner, it'll take you to some of what I have entered in so far...

http://boards.collectors-society.com.../32916/sig.jpg

Also collect Proof Sets, Silver Proof Sets, Mint Sets, Commems and a few other goodies...

Just starting to get into Gold... Starting with a few 1/10 G.A.E.s...

Nothing impressive or like what some of these guys have... I'm small time, but I love what I've collected so far...

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I have been collecting 10oz Englehard Ag bars.

They are hard to find up here and fetch a steep premium when they become available.

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I'd say look at HistoryStudent's thread some for really interesting stuff.

I just try to get new coins as they are issued from the various yearly sets that I photo, like Lunars, Pandas, Brits, etc. Something I haven't done in a while is prowl ebay looking for interesting different and unusual types. I've found some fun but not very expensive stuff like the 1000 togrog silver coin below issued by Mongolia.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2680/...8e2456e858.jpg

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Building a set of Uncirculated Trade Dollars, MS63 to MS64, gun metal blue/gray toning including the proof issues. Need a 73-CC. Anyone have one for sale?

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Coinage:
Bust Halves
World Crowns
IHC's
Morgans
Walkers
Mercs
Some commemoratives, modern rolls, proof & mint sets

Premium Silver Bullion:
Kangaroos
Britannias
Kookaburras

Semi-collectible Bullion:
SAE's
Libertads

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Loved the PHOTO STREAM....

We have a LOT in COMMON...

When great minds think alike we're not really thinking...

Imitating is the highest form of flattery...:36_3_16:

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Pre 33 US gold (St.Gs of particular interest)

US Dollars
few FH & DBs
Seated Libs
Trade
Morgans
Peace

Junk Silver - ballast for the safe

Currency (Gold certs, bank notes, legal tender and large FRNs)

Art - photography, poster and paintings

Shotguns

Timepieces

Books

Girlfriends - I find they are much more economical than wives.

Intrigued by the ancients that have been popping up - you guys are a bad influence - lol.


ST

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Hypergrade newer Canadian stuff, and super-key dates in good, collectible grades of at least VF. For fun right now I'm going back to pre-TPG collecting and filling up an album (Canadian small cents, 1920-date). I also work on cameo sets and have a special interst in mules. I buy bullion for logical reasons, but I have way more fun with numismatic stuff (as David Hall likes to say - "Have fun with your coins!").

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I am currently collecting '70's SABs. I have been seriously collecting '70's SABs since August 2008.

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For Au I need a 1/4 Krugger to have one of each, hope to find one this weekend. Next I'll be looking for Chinese at reasonable premiums so I can own some of them back. Sovereigns at low premiums, need a young Victoria.

Ag will be a 100oz Engelhard bull bar but that will be a while to fit in the budget. I'm drawn to International Trade Unit rounds because of the high relief on them. Just about any "old pour" bar.

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These, the rounds are pretty hard to find.

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The only things I collect are some of the fish I catch from my boat and deer I muzzzleloader and rifle hunt for the freezer in the fall.

I don't shoot bucks because they don't taste nearly as good as does...and grandma & I can't eat antlers.

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I collect any old 90% I can pick up for FV. HH Mark

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After losing all of my silver bullion in a boating accident, the trauma of the event has caused me to experience explosive diarrhea every time I touch or buy silver. I've redirected my hunter-gatherer drive in a different direction: I now collect moist wipes:

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A truly imaginative Gimmer could make a lot of money with that malady. May I suggest that you and a lawyer team up for a lucrative career profiting from the restaurant industry?

"Though the wait staff was most solicitous, I don't recommend the clam chowder."

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Aussie Tigers right now, would like a large stack of them before they are gone for the year.

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I'll buy nearly any PM when the price is right. A couple of weeks ago, APMEX was unloading 2009 Year of the Ox colorized 1/10 ounce gold coins at spot. I don't know that I'm a fan of colorized coins. But any time I can buy fractional gold at spot prices, I'm in. The 10 coins I bought came to $1125 including shipping. They arrived today and I am very, very pleased.

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Beanie Babies and My Little Ponies here. Just because the market for them has dropped some 99% does not mean they won't make a comeback.

If you want I could pull some strings and get you in on the ground level of this incredible investment opportunity. :biggrin:

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My first love is collecting antique silver, as I prefer my silver in a more functional form!

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91...r/100_3209.jpg



This is a sugar sifter I thought the gentlemen here might appreciate...

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91...r/100_2918.jpg

especially the details!

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91..._2916-Copy.jpg

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Why do you limit to only '70?s? Nothing good in the 60s or the 80s?

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I got into collecting blackberries last summer,now I'm into collecting empty wine bottles.

coin wise I've been sorting out pre-1982 Canadian nickels

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I guess I am just a silver art bar snob. :biggrin:

I do collect a few silver art bars from the '80's and '90's as well as some select few "modern" silver art bars but I do not have many SABs from different decades and I like the '70's SABs more because the art bars from the '70's had more interesting themes that I liked. The art work on some of the '70's SABs is more appealing to me than silver art bars that were minted in other decades IMO. There also appeared to be more different '70's SABs that were minted than any other SAB from any other decade.

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I collect:

Old tobacco card inserts

50's - 60's baseball cards and memorabilia

Hemingray insulators

S/GAE's

Mercs

Silver Washington quarters

64 Kennedys (can't get enough of them got enough to start my own mint)

Old antique threshing equipment

Cents and nickels

And various other kinds of collections that I've started over the years and have never finished because I forgot I started them. My kids are going to hate me someday when they go to clean my house out. Or, they might be really happy with what they find! :yes:

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A little of this and a little of that. I still have room somewhere for something else.

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That might be an old custom made Absinthe spoon Mom, especially if it came from france or new orleans.
Most of the commercially made absinthe spoons were made to settle on top of a glass, but not all of them.
The design on the handle makes me think it's all about Absinthe, and you may have something there worth a lot more than you think to the right collector!!:ARMS1:

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Elements.
Oso Forge pattern-welded blades.

Previously:
Glass insulators
Date nails
Minerals/crystals

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Currently:
Geiger counters/radiation detection gear.
Cold War Memorabilia.
Elements
Maps and globes
Microscopes
Firearms. Not really collecting, just acquiring!

Previously:
Minerals ( a large collection)
Meteorites

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Morgan & Peace dollars, All types of silver & gold bullion, 1892 & 93 Columbian Expo halves, gold Sovereigns, gold Pesos, got my first Platinum coins recently (4 Liberty 1/4-ozts), and what's below.
http://goldismoney.info/forums/pictu...035504&thumb=1
http://goldismoney.info/forums/pictu...035263&thumb=1
http://goldismoney.info/forums/pictu...035263&thumb=1
http://goldismoney.info/forums/pictu...035263&thumb=1

And I know History Student blows me away but, I got one of these. It's AD150-151, Roman, Antoninus Pius (138-161) Denarius, Rome. That makes this coin over 1800 years old.
http://goldismoney.info/forums/pictu...923355&thumb=1

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As a matter of fact, I did buy it in New Orleans - good call, Irons!:ok:

It was made by Durgin, and I'm pretty sure it's a sugar sifter, as it's a fairly typical form - but I like your idea of an absinthe spoon much better. The only absinthe spoons I was familiar with have sort of a V shape with piercings, to hold the sugar cube. I looked it up after you suggested the idea - I never realized there was such a wide variety in forms. Some of the old silver ones are very nice, and not that dissimilar to mine. If I ever decide to sell it (unlikely!) I may use your identification instead, as it's much more exciting than mine!

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good heavy work cloths ... guns... ammo.... gold and silver .... lots of food ... more land when the price is right ..... solar panel .... battery ... a better tractor ... a bigger wood burning stove .... a few pigs ... a goat or two ... hell i have a lot more to do

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Hey Mick. Is that collecting or prepping? :wink:

I wish I had "collected" more of what you are "collecting" a long time ago.

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Fresh eggs from my chicken coop every day :clap2:

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Wouldn't mind adding this one to my collection:

http://www.apmex.com/Resources/Catal...20325_Slab.jpg

$3495, too pricey for me at the moment. Beautiful coin though, below is a shot from Modern Coin Mart:
http://www.moderncoinmart.com/cart1/...hp?imageid=473
http://www.moderncoinmart.com/cart1/...hp?imageid=474

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Anything Silver or Gold I can get for less than spot, I'm a silver/gold american picker.

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I collect scrap Silver items, bracelets, necklaces, candlesticks etc.

Also Bob Dawe 60's studio pottery.

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Plus Fat Lava pottery from 60's/70's

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I also collect 1:43 scale Minichamps die-cast cars. They are accurately detailed as they appeared in the specified trim, and list series, driver(s), and race finish position if applicable.

http://www.motorsportcollector.com/J...IN/Merc1L.jpeg